MEDIAMEDIA INFORMATIONGUIDE DELOEHF FINALSEHF CHAMPIONS WOMEN 2021 LEAGUE 2020/21 GROUPDRAW PHASE DRAW 27 June 2019, 18:00 hrs Erste Campus, Vienna 1 Draw preview VIENNA WELCOMES THE EHF FINALS WOMEN DRAW The EHF European League Women 2020/21 started its inaugural season with 34 teams, now only four remain in contention for the title: Herning-Ikast Handbold, Nantes Atlantique Handball, Siófok KC and CS Minaur Baia Mare. These four semi-finalists, who will be competing at the EHF Finals Women on the 8 and 9 May, have been the outstanding clubs throughout the season and there is plenty of anticipation to see them face off. DRAW ON THURSDAY WILL DETERMINE THE SEMI-FINAL PAIRINGS The EHF Finals Women 2021 draw will determine the two semi-final pairings at 11:00 CEST at the EHF Office in Vienna and will be streamed live on the Home of Handball YouTube account and EHF European League Facebook page. 2 3 Media contacts EHF/M MEDIA CONTACTS MEDIA MATTERS TV & RADIO MATTERS Vlado Brindzak Andrew Barringer Miguel Mateo Marcellan Media and Communications Media and Communications Director of Media Operations European Handball Federation European Handball Federation EHF Marketing GmbH +43 1 80 151 161 +43 1 80 151 166 +43 1 80 151 224 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] CLUB MEDIA CONTACTS Herning-Ikast Handbold (DEN) Nantes Atlantique Handball (FRA) CS Minaur Baia Mare (ROU) Siófok KC (HUN) Daniel Gronhoj Hansen Marianne Buron Mircea Grumaz Bence Biró +45 31 552120 +33 2 40 47 60 40 +40747110404 +3630/3285885 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 4 WOMEN’S EHF EUROPEAN LEAGUE 2020/21 SEASON Playing system and dates Qualification Group Phase Quarter-finals Finals Draw required Draw required No draw required Draw required 4 teams directly qualify for the Group Phase 2nd v 1st Round 1 A B C D Semi-finals v B2 v A1 v 8 v v Round 2 A2 B1 rd 5 3 place match v 12* 4 v D2 v C1 FINAL Round 3 C2 v D1 v v * Number of clubs inoled in Qualification rounds t.b.d., although 12 teams will qualify for the Group Phase. R1 1st leg 12.- 13.09.2020 R1 09.- 10.01.2021 R4 06.- 07.02.2021 1st leg 27.- 28.03.2021 08.- 09.05.2021 R1 2nd leg 19.- 20.09.2020 R2 16.- 17.01.2021 R5 13.- 14.02.2021 2nd leg 03.- 04.04.2021 R2 1st leg 10.- 11.10.2020 R3 23.- 24.01.2021 R6 20.- 21.02.2021 R2 2nd leg 17.- 18.10.2020 R3 1st leg 14.- 15.11.2020 R3 2nd leg 21.- 22.11.2020 Facts and figures FROM 1 TO 2,659: THE NUMBERS BEFORE THE EHF FINALS WOMEN FACTS AND FIGURES: THE MOST IMPORTANT NUMBERS FOLLOWING THE QUARTER-FINALS On 8/9 May, the winners of the first ever 3 Russian teams had qualified for the quarter- European League Women will be decided in the finals, all three missed the ticvket for the final final tournament. Four teams from four nations tournament. - Siofok from Hungary, Nantes from France, Baia Mare from Romania and Herning-Ikast from 3 Denmark fight for the new trophy. of the 38 group matches decided on court and zero of the eight quarter-finals, ended After 68 matches played so far, here are the most with draws. important and interesting facts and figures on the maiden voyage of this competition. competition. 3 teams in the quarter-finals also played in the 0 quarter-final matches needed to be assessed quarter-finals of the EHF Cup last season: Siófok, by the EHF, all matches could be played as Herning-Ikast and Lada. scheduled. 4 EHF EURO 2020 medallists will be playing at the final tournament: Norway’s gold medallist 0 Stine Skogrand (Herning), the French silver teams made it from the first qualification medallists Gnonsiane Niombla and Tamara round, Nantes is the only semi-finalist Horacek and Croatian bronze medallists Katarina which played in qualification round 3. Jezic (all at Siófok). 1 - Nantes will have their first international semi- 4 matches - two semi-final a placement match final ahead, for Siofok and Baia Mare it will be the and the final - are still ahead. each second semi in any EHF club competition, while Herning-Ikast have even won five trophies 4 - which means all - sides won both legs of the in three different EHF competitions. quarter-finals, and all 4 of them had been group winners before. 1 player who has been Champions League top scorer is part of the final tournament: Siófok’s 4 different nations are represented in the semi- Andrea Kobetic (formerly playing under her finals: Hungary, France, Denmark and Romania. maiden name, Penezic) scored 102 times for Vardar in 2014/15 and shared the top-scorer title 5 - Herning’s German goalkeeper Sabine Englert that season with Cristina Neagu. has the semi-finals in her fifth different European club competition ahead: won the Challenge Cup 2 of the four semi-finalists had made it to the with Bayer Leverkusen, the EHF Cup and the 2019/20 EHF Cup semi-finals, which finally were Cup Winners Cup with FC Midtjylland and was cancelled due to COVID-19: Siofok and Herning- Champions League Finalist with Hypo. Ikast - the remaining semi-finalists played in the EHF Champions League this season (and both 5 of the 38 group matches decided on court failed in the play.-offs): Odense and Podravka. and none of the quarter-finals, ended with a difference of 10 or more goals 2 of the four semi-finalists, have won EHF competitions before: Herning-Ikast (City-Cup 9 goals was the biggest overall margin the four 1997/98, EHF Cup 2001 and CWC 2004 all as quarter-final pairings, when Baia Mare beat Ikast-Bording and EHF Cup 2011 and CWC 2015 Dunarea Braila 58:49. as FC Midtjylland) and Siofok (EHF Cup 2019). 6 Facts and figures 15 points in eight matches were taken by Siofok - Highest scores since start of the group matches: the only unbeaten team in the group phase. Baia Mare and Herning-Ikast were defeated each once. 77 goals: Thüringer HC vs Storhamar 41:36 (GP) Siofok even took seven victories in a row after an 70 goals: Zvezda vs Herning-Ikast 31:39 (GP) opening draw against Kuban. 68 goals: Herning-Ikast vs Vac 39:29 (GP) 68 goals: Braila vs Kuban 36:32 (GP) 17 times in 38 group matches and eight quarter- ... finals, 60 or more goals were scored. 62 goals: Zvezda vs Nantes 29:33 (QF) 17 European Cup matches in a row, Siofok are Lowest scores since start of the group matches: unbeaten now, including eight in the current European League season. 40 goals: Kastamonu vs Lublin 20:20 (GP) 46 goals: Nants vs Lublin 25:21 (GP) 17 goals were the high-score of a single player in 48 goals: Herning-Ikast vs Paris 25:23 (GP) both quarter-finals: Helene Fauske (Herning-Ikast) … scored eight goals in the first leg and nine goals in 52 goals: Baia Mare vs Braila 27:25 (QF) the second leg against Lada. Biggest margins since start of the group phase: 25 of the 38 group matches decided on court and the eight quarter-finals ended with victories of the +13: Storhamar vs Baia Mare (27:40) home teams. +12: Vac vs Herning-Ikast (26:38) +11: Fleury vs Siofok 24:35 54 goals were scored by Nantes’ Brazilian Bruna … de Paula to be the best scorer still in competition +7: Braila vs Baia Mare 24:31 and after the quarter-finals in total - ahead of Helene Fauske (Herning/51) and Jovana Kovacevic High score points: (Baia Mare/42). 15 points: Siofok 63 goals were the aggregate high-score by one 14 points: Baia Mare team in the quarter-finals, scored by Nantes 14 points: Herning-Ikast (63:57 against Zvezda). Best attacking sides: 68 matches have already been played in the European League: 22 qualification matches, 38 257 goals: Herning-Ikast group matches and eight quarter-finals. 242 goals: Siofok 219 goals: Dunarea Braila 77 goals were the group phase high-score, when Thüringer HC beat Norwegian side Storhamar by Overall top scorers still in competition: a 41:36. 54 goals: Bruna de Paula (Nantes) 83 was the highest number of goals in a European 51 goals: Helene Fauske (Herning-Ikast) League Women match in this season, when Vac 42 goals: Jovana Kovacevic (Baia Mare) (HUN) defeated Banik Most (CZE) 42:41 in the 39 goals: Tamara Horacek (Siofok) qualification. 257 goals were scored in group phase and quarter- finals by Herning-Ikast to have the best attacking side, ahead of Siofok (242) and Braila (219). 455 goals were scored in the quarter-finals, which means an average of 56.87 goals, a little bit less than ion the group phase (58.0). 2,659 goals were scored in the 38 group matches and the eight quarter-final games. 7 QUALIFIED TEAMS 8 Head-to-heads POTENTIAL HEAD-TO-HEADS PREVIOUS EC ENCOUNTERS OF THE DELO EHF FINAL4 TEAMS Herning-Ikast Handbold vs CS Minaur Baia Mare 1-0-1 (61:50) 2:2 03.11.2007 HCM Baia Mare vs Ikast Bording Elite Handbold, EHF Cup – Round 3 29:26 (14:15) 10.11.2007 Ikast Bording Elite Handbold vs HCM Baia Mare, EHF Cup – Round 3 35:21 (20:7) Herning-Ikast Handbold vs Siófok KC 0-0-2 (43:59) 0:4 05.01.2019 Siófok KC Hungary vs Herning-Ikast Handbold, EHF Cup – Group B 25:21 (14:11) 03.02.2019 Herning-Ikast Handbold vs Siófok KC Hungary, EHF Cup – Group B 22:34 (8:20) Herning-Ikast Handbold vs Nantes Atlantique Handball No previous encounters in European competitions Nantes Atlantique Handball vs Siófok KC 1-0-1 (58:61) 2:2 10.11.2019 Nantes Atlantique Handball vs Siófok KC Hungary, EHF Cup – Qualification Round 3 24:32 (12:16) 16.11.2019 Siófok KC Hungary vs Nantes Atlantique Handball, EHF Cup – Qualification Round 3 29:34 (15:13) Nantes Atlantique Handball vs CS Minaur Baia Mare No previous encounters in European competitions Siófok KC vs CS Minaur Baia Mare No previous encounters in European competitions 9 Herning-Ikast Handbold EHF FINALS HERNING-IKAST HANDBOLD Club contact Club Address ROAD TO THE EHF FINALS CURRENT TOP SCORERS Herning-Ikast Handbold GROUP PHASE Stadion Alle 2B 7430 Ikast vs HC Zvezda W34:35 (15:13) 1.